Sr. Staff R&D Engineer

Lead Innovation. Engineer the Future of Healthcare.

Join Stryker Peripheral Vascular as a Senior Staff R&D Engineer supporting the development of a next-generation mechanical thrombectomy device. Take technical ownership of complex structural mechanical design challenges, while remaining hands-on with design, prototyping, testing, and problem-solving. As a subject matter expert, you will guide critical technical decisions, mentor developing engineers, and collaborate across Research and Development (R&D), Quality, Manufacturing, Regulatory, Clinical, Marketing, and Project Management. This role combines deep technical expertise with broader technical leadership while keeping you closely connected to hands-on medical device product development.

This role is onsite 5 days a week in Irvine, CA.

To learn about our Thrombectomy product, please click here - ClotTriever Thrombectomy System | Stryker (https://www.stryker.com/us/en/peripheral-vascular/products/clottriever-system.html)

What you will do

• Lead the structural mechanical design, development, prototyping, testing, and technical evaluation of complex catheter-based medical device components and subsystems through design development, design freeze, verification, validation and design transfer.

• Serve as a technical subject matter expert for nitinol and metallic-alloy component development, including material behavior, processing, structural performance, fatigue, durability, and design optimization.

• Evaluate existing designs, test results, technical limitations, and new concepts to rapidly develop and iterate prototypes that meet component, subsystem, and overall device requirements.

• Develop complex mechanical designs and models using SolidWorks, engineering drawings, geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T), computer-aided engineering (CAE) analysis, materials selection, and design for manufacturability (DFM) principles.

• Lead technical trade-off decisions, root-cause investigations, risk assessments, and design modifications through engineering analysis, hands-on prototyping and laboratory testing.

• Establish test methods and design verification strategies, including risk-based testing, statistical analysis, sample-size rationale, and technical documentation supporting medical device design controls.

• Partner across R&D, Quality, Manufacturing, Regulatory, Clinical, Marketing, and Project Management to integrate component designs into the overall device and address manufacturing requirements throughout development.

• Mentor engineers on advanced engineering principles, technical problem-solving, design controls, risk management, and medical device product-development practices.

What you will need

Required

• Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.

• Minimum 6 years of professional engineering experience.

• Professional experience in structural mechanical design and development of components using nitinol, shape-memory materials, or comparable metallic alloys.

• Professional experience developing products within a regulated medical device environment, including design controls, risk management, and test-method development.

Preferred

• Experience developing nitinol-based components, including material behavior, processing, fatigue, durability, and structural performance.

• Experience developing catheter-based, stent, vascular, thrombectomy, structural heart, or other mechanically complex medical devices.

• Experience using SolidWorks, engineering drawings, geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T), or computer-aided engineering (CAE) tools to develop and iterate complex mechanical designs.

• Experience progressing medical device products through design freeze, design verification, and design transfer, including design for manufacturability (DFM).

Must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. and not require employment-based sponsorship now or in the future.

United States of America Pay Ranges:

• US15 : $118,000 - $196,600 USD Annual.

Health benefits include: Medical and prescription drug insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, critical illness insurance, accident insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, personalized healthcare support, wellbeing program and tobacco cessation program. Financial benefits include: Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), 401(k) plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), basic life and AD&D insurance, and short-term disability insurance. Stryker offers innovative products and services in MedSurg, Neurotechnology, Orthopaedics and Spine that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 150 million patients annually. Depending on customer requirements employees and new hires in sales and field roles that require access to customer accounts as a function of the job may be required to obtain various vaccinations as an essential function of their role.

Stryker Corporation is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. Stryker is an EO employer – M/F/Veteran/Disability.